Manifolding book



'Feb.1s,1930. E. K. BOTTLE. 1,747,658

QMANIFOLDING BOOK Filed April 7, 1925' INVENTOR Wf/Jkm/ ATTORNEY Patented Feb. 18, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE I EDWARD KIRBY BOTTLE, OF ELMIRA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOB TO AMERICAN SALES BOOK COMPANY, LIMITED, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, A CORPORATION OF ONTARIO, CANADA MANIFOLDING BOOK This invention relates to an improvement in manifolding books and with respect to its more specific features to four copy books.

An object of the invention is to provide a manifolding book wherein four copies may be simultaneously made with a single transfer leaf.

Another object is to provide in a manifolding book composed of an assemblage of sets of more than two record leaves, an arrangement such that a single transfer leaf may be used, and may be inserted between the leaves of a set and removed therefrom without touching the same.

Another object is to provide in a book of i the class described, an arrangement of leaves in the set, which will materially reduce the thickness of the book.

Another object is toprovide in a book composed of an assemblage of four record leaf sets, an arrangement of the leaves in the set and of the sets, such that the thickness of the book will be materially reduced, and a single transfer leaf may be used.

Other objects of the invention will be in part obvious and will in part appear here inafter.

The invention accordingly comprises. an article of manufacture possessing the features, properties, and the relation of elements which will be exemplified in the article hereinafter described and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification wherein similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views,

Figure '1 is a perspective view of the improved book, with a part of the first leaf broken away,

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the twoleaf set folded into a four-leaf set,

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of an alternate form of transfer leaf,'and

Fig. 4 is a top plan View showing an alternate arrangement of transfer leaf.

In the embodiment of the invention shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the improved book consists of a plurality of sets of leaves, each set in- 1923-. Serial No. 630,576.

eluding a leaf 1 and a leaf 2, of approximately the same record length, and which are connected at one end, as for instance by a line of paste indicated at 3. At the opposite end the leaves 1 of all of the sets are connected together, as for instance by binding, and in the" present instance the connection is made by staples 4 which are passed through all of the leaves 1, and a suitable back 5 of pasteboard or the like. v

The back 5 is preferably relatively stiff a compared with the leaves of the book supported thereon and, as shown, extends approximately the full length of the leaves 1 and 2 so as to support the latter in the book 1n the position shown in Figure 1. The manifolding leaves 1 and 2 are manipulated from the position shown in Figure 1 into the po-- sition in which they are used during a manifolding operation as more fully later appears.

The improved book may consist of as many sets of leaves as maybe desired, and a transfer sheet, or leaf is provided in connection with each book. The transfer leaf indicated at 6, in the present instance a double-faced leaf, is bound with the sets by the staples 4:. The transfer leaf is of a length such that it will lie between the leaves 1 and 2, and will extend from the binding of the book to near the connected ends of the leaves of the sets, and also will extend across the fold lines 7 hereinafter further mentioned. Any desired form of ruling and printed matter may be arranged on the leaves of the sets. In the usual arrangement all of the leaves of a set have a common number, and the sets are numbered consecutively. Each two-leaf set is designed to be folded into a four-leaf set, so that four copies may be simultaneously obtained by writing on the uppermost of the 'four. Hence, the printing and ruling is so arranged upon the leaves of the sets, that each leaf 1 and 2 will have two sets of substantially duplicate matter, the upper half containing one set, and the lower half the other set. Since the two-leaf sets are designed to be folded into four-leaf sets, an indicating line of fold 7 is provided in 0011- 100 nection with each leaf, and the lines of fold of all the leaves are in substantial register. The line of fold may be a crease, or merely anindicating line, or, as in the present instance, it may be a line of partial separation, to facilitate the detachment of the copies of each leaf from'each other. In addition a line of partial separation 8 is provided near the connection of the leaf 2 with the leaf 1, and a similar line 9 is provided for the leaf 1 near its connection with the binding. Thus the upper half of the leaf 2 may be separated from the lower half, or the entire leaf .2 may be separated from the leaf 1. In addition, the lower half of the leaf '1, together with the leaf 2 may be separated from the upper half of the leaf 1, or all four copies may be separated from the binding. The transfer leaf is notched in one side edge as indicated at 10, near its connection with the binding, to facilitate engagement of a pencil or the like with the leaf, to remove it from between the leaves of a. set, or to insert the same. However, it is not necessary to at any time touch the transfer leaf, since it may be placed between the leaves of aset, or removedtherefrom, by manipulation of the book.

As will be observed in Figures 1 and 2, transfer material may be applied on both faces of the transfer leaf substantially throu hout the length thereof. When the transfiar material is thus applied, the inscriptions are transferred to the back side of the original record leaf which is the leaf disposed on top as the leaves are assembledas shown in Figure 2. This inscriptionis, of course, a reverse inscription and is useful in preventing frauds by erasures or alterations, al-

' though in some instances, as shown in Figure 3 it is unnecessary that the face of the transfer leaf lyin against the back of the original record leaf be supplied with transfer material.

To insert the transfer leaf between the leaves, the leaf 2 is turned down, and the book is flipped upward and forward, throwing the transfer leaf on top of the leaf 1, after which the leaf 2 may be turned back into normal position. During this manipulation the outer ends of the lower record leaf 1 and of the transfer leaf 6 are supported in extended position by means of the back 5. This facilitates the adjustment of the leaves into correct position for manifolding operation and prevents tearing or other injury to the record and transfer leaves. In order that four impressions may be obtained from one transfer leaf, the leaf 2 is of tissue or other translucent material. When the leaves of a set are folded on the fold line, with the transfer leaf in place, as shown in Fig. 2, and the lower half of the leaf 1, which is now the uppermost leaf of the set, is written upon, four copies will be made.

It is not necessary that all of both faces v of the transfer leaf be provided with transfer face provided with transfer material 11, the

lower half of the said face being plain as indicated at 12. Neither is it essential that the transfer leaf be connected at the ends of the leaves 1, as is done in the embodiment of Figs. 1 and 2. For example, as shown in Fig. 4, the record book indicated at 13 is the same in general construction as that shown in Fig; 1, but, in this case, the transfer leaf 14 has an extension 15, at one side edge, and at one end, and this extension is secured to the back 5 in an suitable or desired manner, as for instance y pasting or stapling. The

extension 15 is of such length that it stops the invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above-description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as iliustrative and not in a limiting sense.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters- Patent, is:

1. In a manifolding book of the character described, in combination, sets of two superposed record leaves pasted together at one end and having registerin weakening fold lines intermediate their en s, a transfer sheet adapted to be disposed between said leaves, said sheet having upper and lower transfer faces at one side of said fold lines, said transfer sheet havin a side extension positioned wholly at one si e of said fold lines by which it is adapted to be connected to the book.

2. A manifolding book including, in combination, a pluralityof superposed sets of record leaves posed record leaves of approximatel similar record len th and having transfer old lines substantia ly in registry with each other intermediate the ends of said leaves, one end of the lower of said.leaves of each set having a binding to bind it to the book, the leaves of each set bein attached together at their other ends, a sti supporting back extending from said binding of the record leaves substantially the full extended length of said.

each set including two superuppermost of said sets and extending across said fold lines. approximately to the point of.

attachment between said leaves, said transfer sheet having an upper transfer face opposite the portion of the upper record leaf between the fold line in the latter and its attachment with the other record leaf, said transfer sheet having upper and lower transfer faces opposite the portions of said record leaves between said fold lines and the binding of the sets of leaves.

3. A manifolding book including. in combination', sets of two superposed record leaves secured together at one end and having transverse weakening fold lines intermediate their ends dividing them into two record sections,

' one of said record leaves of each set having a binding at one end to the book, a transfer sheet of a length to overlap both said record sections and adapted to be disposed successively between the record leaves of the sets and having a side attaching extension attached to the book and lying wholly between the fold lines and said binding.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

EDWARD KIRBY BOTTLE. 

